How to format your references using the Journal de Radiologie diagnostique et interventionnelle citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal de Radiologie diagnostique et interventionnelle. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Goldston D. Shattered illusions. Nature 2008;451:387.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bradshaw WE, Holzapfel CM. Climate change. Evolutionary response to rapid climate change. Science 2006;312:1477–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rainville S, Thompson JK, Pritchard DE. An ion balance for ultra-high-precision atomic mass measurements. Science 2004;303:334–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chen Z, Odstrcil EA, Tu BP, McKnight SL. Restriction of DNA replication to the reductive phase of the metabolic cycle protects genome integrity. Science 2007;316:1916–9.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Fernandes R. Local and Regional Flaps in Head & Neck Reconstruction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Spink A, Jansen BJ, editors. Web Search: Public Searching of the Web. vol. 6. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Barro S. Another Half Century of Progress in Fuzzy Logic? In: Seising R, Trillas E, Moraga C, Termini S, editors. On Fuzziness: A Homage to Lotfi A. Zadeh – Volume 1, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 23–9.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal de Radiologie diagnostique et interventionnelle.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. A Mother Monkey Appears To Wail And Cradle Its Collapsed Child. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/a-mother-monkey-appears-to-wail-and-cradle-its-collapsed-child/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Concerns Over Labor’s Ability To Implement the Job Training Partnership Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cubarrubia AP. Exploring the influence of external standards of institutional effectiveness on program assessment in student affairs. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2009.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Kishkovsky S. Russian Priest Killed in Church. New York Times 2009:A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal de Radiologie diagnostique et interventionnelle
ISSN (print)	2211-5706
Scope